Shottisham
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 3 records
B01:
design element - architectural - arch or window - pointed - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 November 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/shottisham.htm] [accessed 29 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/shottisham.htm] [accessed 29 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/shottisham.htm] [accessed 29 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15633SHO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Shottisham, Suffolk, IP12 3HG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1083, 6 km SE of Woodford, 10 km SE of Woodbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wilford [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 13th century [altered], Early English [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font
There are five entries for Shottisham in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM3244/shottisham/] [accessed 8 October 2017], one of which reports a church and 0.1 church lands in it. Parker (1855) writes: "Font, E[arly] E[nglish], with slightly sunk panels in the bowl; it has a later cover of wood, in good preservation." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2008): "the octagonal Purbeck marble font, on its modern arcade, is set on what appears to be an altar mensa slab". The basin is of the octagonal type with pairs of pointed arches on its sides, and it is raised on what appears to be the original central shaft and lower base, but the eight outer colonnettes are modern replacements. The old cover mentioned in Parker is not on the font anymore.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.052392,
1.384394
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 3′ 8.61″ N,
1° 23′ 3.82″ E
UTM: 31U 389221 5768097
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-29 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855
